Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2923 CWSA 08⧸10⧸25

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00:01:16.640 the joke i mean at the end of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the

00:01:22.000 simultaneous sip and it happens right now go

00:01:30.240 ah perfect oh did you ever stop to think that there have been uh let's say a million years of human

00:01:39.200 evolution and you happen to be here at exactly the right time for the simultaneous sip talk about luck wow

00:01:52.880 or as i like to say you had to be someplace

00:01:58.880 well after the podcast owen gregorian will be hosting um a um coffee with scott adams after

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00:02:18.320 to spaces well how many of you are aware of the big news of the summer uh that uh fans keep throwing

00:02:29.680 green dildos onto the uh playing surface of the nba w nba games now if you didn't know that

00:02:40.800 this next story wouldn't make much sense but it's a thing this happened four times i believe

00:02:47.840 and they have to pause the game and get rid of the green or in one case purple dildo

00:02:53.600 well turns out somebody made a meme that featured uh trump on the roof of the white house where he

00:03:02.320 had recently been to uh look at his construction ideas for the ballroom and uh below it was a w nba game

00:03:12.720 that seemed to be playing in the rose garden or something inexplicably and it showed trump throwing

00:03:20.480 a green dildo uh onto the uh surface now that by itself you might find funny if you have a certain

00:03:30.640 kind of sense of humor but the real funny part is that don jr uh reposted it

00:03:39.600 so don jr reposted it and that was enough for cnn to turn it into a into a news story

00:03:46.400 uh so that they could all do the cnn disgust face have you seen it it's like and then john jr

00:03:58.960 oh oh john jr he reposted it oh the norms had been violated how can we go on

00:04:13.600 so the funny part and the part that don jr no doubt knows is funny is that by reposting it he makes

00:04:22.880 them talk about it and that's the funny part the funny part is that don jr is making cnn talk about

00:04:31.360 this on tv now that is funny that is very funny so good job don jr

00:04:38.000 well elon musk is uh uh touting the uh capabilities of his ai and it can create uh infinite

00:04:52.320 um environments on the fly so it could look like you're going through a cityscape or a countryside or

00:05:00.080 some fantasy place and it will just keep making new space so it'd be like the real world where you

00:05:08.160 could walk forever now at the moment it's limited to just a few seconds but obviously that will

00:05:15.760 continue to get better and maybe in a year or so um or as elon musk says um the future of gaming

00:05:24.000 is going to be these simulated worlds can you imagine gaming where the world is not static

00:05:33.840 but rather you could go somewhere it would be the one and only time that place existed

00:05:38.800 it would only be in your simulated game world very cool but as i like to remind you

00:05:46.880 as we we build simulated worlds that are visually perfect and then we start um populating them with

00:05:58.160 characters who are programmed to believe that they're real and not characters we're going to realize

00:06:05.840 that we're a simulation there's no way around it it's definitely coming so the biggest shock

00:06:14.080 humanity will ever experience will be the realization uh oh we're actually just made from some kind of code

00:06:23.920 and uh then we'll have some fun but that's coming um

00:06:32.800 so uh nbc news is reporting that uh ai does not seem to have made any real difference in the job market yet

00:06:44.640 however uh they also report that companies are claiming that ai is the reason they're downsizing

00:06:52.720 because it's so it's so uh with it so modern so cool um i don't know about you but uh

00:07:01.440 i downside is downsize 15 000 people because i implemented ai what did you do today

00:07:08.480 and for a ceo it's like the ultimate brag oh yeah i'm so far ahead of the curve i've already downsized

00:07:19.360 using ai of course uh are you uh have you done that yet oh no you haven't oh well i guess you're a 0.98

00:07:27.040 little bit behind me aren't you i feel sorry you poor bastards so uh sure enough and uh you might 0.93

00:07:35.360 remember that i've predicted this a number of times that the dilbert filter as i call it suggests that 0.95

00:07:43.680 ceos would immediately be start start uh artificially claiming credit for ai knowing that the ai

00:07:51.920 made no difference or made things worse but they're all gonna say uh yeah we put a billion dollars into ai

00:07:59.920 so uh yeah yeah that's why we're saving money uh-huh that's why but no evidence yet however

00:08:09.840 there are there are a growing number of situations where ai may create a job where no job existed for

00:08:20.160 example also in the news um we can now use when i say we i act like you know a part of the project or

00:08:29.120 something but uh we humans can now use ai to locate people lost in forests so if you had a bunch of uh

00:08:38.560 let's say satellite or drone pictures of a forest where maybe somebody was lost it would be really

00:08:45.920 hard to spot somebody in a forest but apparently ai can do it so it can spot the you know the smallest

00:08:54.480 irregularity and it can look faster than a human can so apparently it's already being used

00:09:00.720 um and it also can do geolocation so once it finds somebody in the woods it can tell you exactly where

00:09:10.160 that is so seems to me that a job will be created for some startup or something where they say something

00:09:20.400 lost we'll find it for you and they'll just you know sell that a service and in the short run

00:09:28.000 it'll be staffed by people so there's going to be some number of new jobs that never existed before

00:09:39.520 that will create jobs for humans but other jobs will be lost of course don't know what the net will be

00:09:46.800 but illinois uh just became the first state to ban ai from acting as a therapist

00:09:54.160 so it's literally illegal in illinois to have ai as a therapist i don't know what that means

00:10:02.160 for the ai apps does that mean they have to block people with a geofence or something i don't know how

00:10:10.080 they implement that but this is a story in gme science um and the idea is they want to keep the

00:10:19.200 mental health care in the hands of humans now do you see a problem with that uh one of my predictions

00:10:29.440 about ai is that um humans would find a way to stymie all of its potential because we wouldn't want to

00:10:39.360 take care of jobs so here we have already the therapists who got enough clout and uh you know they

00:10:47.680 they work their their magic until they get a law that makes it illegal for ai to compete with them

00:10:56.800 how many other domains do you think will do this how long will it be before the legal profession

00:11:05.920 gets a law passed everywhere that says you cannot use or or ai cannot give legal advice

00:11:12.720 advice because you wouldn't know if they were giving good advice or bad advice so the lawyers are

00:11:19.120 going to say for the safety of the public it should be illegal for ai to even offer to even offer legal

00:11:28.800 advice instead it should say huh that sounds like a legal question you should consult a thousand dollar

00:11:36.480 an hour lawyer i feel like every domain is going to do this they're all going to say well ai would be

00:11:45.600 too dangerous in my domain so you better make that illegal illinois goes first 1.00

00:11:53.600 all right and then uh futurism joe wilkins is writing that uh apparently the ai industry

00:12:01.760 and a lot of related people are spending billions of dollars to build out ai but nobody really has a

00:12:10.320 good idea how it's ever going to pay back so the size of the investment in ai is like we've never seen

00:12:18.480 it's just enormous and it doesn't look like it's obvious that there's going to be any cash flow coming

00:12:26.160 back at least not for years and years so i do not disagree with the uh let's say the instinct

00:12:37.120 that uh you have to go as hard as you can with ai because you don't want to be last you don't want

00:12:42.560 somebody else to own that industry because it'll be baked into everything um on the other hand i feel

00:12:49.200 like it might be a little bit overhyped in terms of its um certainly short-term benefits and gpt5 came

00:12:59.040 out and people are already bitching and saying i liked four better because four had a better personality

00:13:08.480 yeah that's the thing apparently on reddit people are complaining i saw an article in ars technica

00:13:16.320 people are complaining that uh gpt4 the one that just got replaced had a much better personality

00:13:26.000 and gpt5 is a little too uh a little too antiseptic and a little too professional it's just not as

00:13:34.960 casual and cool so chat gpt5 may have exceeded on some benchmark tests but the public is like

00:13:45.120 uh four or five not that different sounds like uh we may have begun to plateau

00:13:55.200 in what a ai is even ever going to be able to do it's possible now i do think that the ai progress will

00:14:03.680 be perpetual but it might not be it might not be as fast as what we've seen so far could slow down

00:14:12.720 quite a bit but still improve every year all right um apparently there's a move by the fbaa to uh

00:14:23.200 reduce some rules to make it practical and economical for companies to make supersonic jets

00:14:30.800 and i guess there are a few that are already on the drawing board um but with these proposed changes

00:14:38.480 which might take a year or two and then they've got to actually build the jets uh you might get to

00:14:45.920 let's see go across the country in three and a half hours so la to new york three and a half hours

00:14:53.040 that would be cool and i guess they found some way around the the sonic boom that was a problem with the

00:15:02.160 original supersonic jets like the concord so they've engineered around that somehow

00:15:10.560 well john deere the company uh american company is going to put another 20 billion into u.s operations

00:15:18.000 so add that to the growing list of companies investing in the usa i really don't know if

00:15:27.920 these numbers are different from what they would have been if anybody else had been president because

00:15:34.400 some of it just feels like much of bs like every company has to say they have ai

00:15:40.960 and that they're you know reducing expenses with their ai and uh it feels like every company has

00:15:48.800 to say that they're investing a few more billion dollars into america but it's all kind of non-binding

00:15:55.440 there's no penalty if they change their mind it's a little bit suspicious i feel like they might be

00:16:02.000 overhyping their investments but i'm still in favor of them overhyping it because it's the overhyping

00:16:10.720 that makes other people say hey there's a parade i better get in front of this

00:16:16.960 so uh author alex marlow has a book i don't know much about it except that it seems to

00:16:24.560 have a theme that connects russia gate stormy daniels and six court cases uh that were all designed to take

00:16:32.800 trump out and that they were all connected

00:16:36.320 um it's a coordinated lawfare machine built to kill the mega movement now i feel like we do know

00:16:45.680 enough at this point that we can connect all of those dots so i'll be interested to see if alex

00:16:53.680 marlow has done that connecting all the dots um is it my imagination or do the republicans not run

00:17:04.560 giant organized hoaxes i feel like they couldn't get away with it because the mainstream media

00:17:10.720 um is is still you know the main way people get news but the uh the democrats can get away with

00:17:19.680 almost any gigantic hoax because mostly the media will still back them and say the hoax is real not a

00:17:28.000 hoax

00:17:32.560 so anyway um

00:17:36.080 yeah so watching the russia gate get disappeared by the mainstream media

00:17:42.480 is really something that you would never be able to describe to another generation

00:17:50.560 try to tell your 10 year old all right so there was this thing it was called russia gate

00:17:56.560 and you go through all the details of what it was and your 10 year old was like what

00:18:01.760 that is way too complicated i don't care and then you say but and then the exciting the really

00:18:08.320 interesting part is that the media simply made the whole thing go away by telling you it wasn't

00:18:14.080 anything and then the 10 year old would say all right i didn't get any part of that story

00:18:19.840 can i go play so we're living through a time that you'll never be able to describe to anybody in

00:18:27.200 a way that they will understand that they will simply say that didn't happen and then you say no

00:18:34.640 that's what i'm saying i'm saying that you think it didn't happen because the media hypnotized the

00:18:41.200 world and had they had so much control and then they'll look at you and say it didn't happen you nut

00:18:48.080 bag so it's completely impossible to communicate what it's like to live through this

00:18:55.680 um jamie raskin and other democrats have said that trump is on his revenge tour

00:19:03.120 and is it my imagination or did the whole revenge thing start out with sounding like oh that's a

00:19:14.080 that's a pretty good attack the democrats have they're going to say this he's doing revenge instead

00:19:19.920 of doing the work of the people and stuff and then the more i heard it the more i liked it did anybody

00:19:27.840 have that so revenge tour here's my take on the revenge tour you need revenge to hold society

00:19:39.760 together or at the very least the risk of revenge that's why people don't do bad things to other people

00:19:48.880 all the time it's because those other people will get revenge now you could put other words on it you

00:19:55.840 could say it's law enforcement and you know it's uh justice and all that but it's really revenge

00:20:04.560 and knowing that if you do something bad and get caught somebody is going to come for you and it's

00:20:11.600 not necessarily the department of justice so revenge is one of the most vital important elements

00:20:18.960 of civilization you can't not have it and so when they say trump's going on a revenge tour it does

00:20:28.080 feel as others have noted a confession that there's something that he has a reason to want revenge for

00:20:38.320 and when you think of revenge you don't think of revenge for doing something that was legal and

00:20:47.360 justified you know let's say all the law fair cases were completely justified would they be saying he's

00:20:55.280 looking for revenge i don't know it's the fact that he was victimized by the these hoaxes and the law

00:21:04.960 fair that makes the word revenge feel like it fits he has a reason for revenge he's also the only person

00:21:13.600 who can do it because you and i can't do anything about you know russia gate it's got to be him

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00:21:35.840 than you think so um and then then when you hear the story about all the uh uh the redistricting the

00:21:45.840 gerrymandering and i find out i can't believe i didn't know that until this week that the democrats

00:21:53.040 have already gerrymandered to the max everything they can be and the republicans haven't so all the

00:22:00.720 republicans would be doing is catching up and ultimately they would surpass and the number of

00:22:08.240 seats if they were to gerrymandate the same way that democrats did so of course i'm in favor of it now

00:22:15.440 you know if i thought it was sort of a a rare occurrence that any gerrymandering was happening

00:22:24.240 then maybe i wouldn't be in favor of the other side doing it but if one side has done it to the

00:22:32.480 complete maximum you couldn't possibly do it anymore and the other side hasn't well then they have a free

00:22:41.360 pass they got a free punch and uh so the more revenge that trump wants the happier i'm going to be

00:22:52.400 because the universe needs to be rebalanced and people need to understand that you can't run a

00:22:59.840 russiagate hoax and try to overthrow the government you can't have as mike benz has been explaining to us

00:23:07.360 this whole norm eisen you know lawfare massive infrastructure for destroying one side of the 0.74

00:23:14.640 country you you can't have that you got to get rid of that and if you want to call it revenge

00:23:21.920 it's okay with me because some revenge is clearly called for in these situations

00:23:28.160 um here's a summer story

00:23:37.920 so trump is teasing that he might be combining fannie mae and freddie mac which used to be private

00:23:45.840 companies but now they're under some kind of receivership uh if that's the right word the u.s

00:23:53.440 government is managing them because they essentially failed um and you might say but what do these

00:24:00.640 companies even do so they were created to enhance the availability of mortgage funds by purchasing

00:24:07.680 loans from lenders repackage repackaging them into securities and guarantee them guarantee them for

00:24:15.040 investors how many of you understand what that meant only if you knew it before i said it probably

00:24:23.200 because we'll see could i explain this so there are two companies fannie mae and freddie mac

00:24:30.560 and bill pulte is uh in charge of both of them i believe at the moment but these used to be private

00:24:39.600 but now they're under the government's management it's because they had um catastrophic

00:24:46.080 financing failure in 2008 with the financial crisis so what they do if i understand this correctly

00:24:55.040 is let's say your bank makes you a loan on your house your bank makes some money just by initiating

00:25:03.040 the loan but it also would make money as you paid your interest and then paid off the loan but the banks

00:25:11.360 would rather make that initial made alone money and sell the sell the loan

00:25:19.440 to somebody like uh fannie mae or freddie mac and then they own the loan and they collect it from the

00:25:26.720 from the homeowner and then the bank will now be freed up to make another loan because the the bank can't

00:25:35.040 make infinite loans because it only has finite amount of money to back its own operations so

00:25:43.120 the bank becomes more of a transaction creator and makes this money by creating the initiation of the

00:25:50.160 loan and the completion of it but that's all they make and then they sell the ongoing stream of money

00:25:58.240 that would be coming from the interest payments and the principal payments they sell that to a third party

00:26:04.880 in this case fannie or freddie so fannie and freddie make money because they're getting interest and uh

00:26:16.160 and are they repackaging yeah or they're repackaging them into securities so then you could you as an

00:26:22.800 investor could invest through fannie or freddie and then you would be the one who was getting the interest

00:26:31.040 payments but you'd have to take a risk that these are all good enough loans that they don't you know

00:26:38.160 they don't default did any of that make sense yeah it's a big story and uh i think trump is uh and bill

00:26:50.160 pulte would be doing the right thing here so i'm pretty sure that it's a smart thing they should be

00:26:56.880 done all right um apparently on monday trump is going to have some press event in which he's going

00:27:06.960 to announce how he's going to make washington dc the safest place in the world instead of one of the most

00:27:13.200 dangerous so i assume that that will use some government resources i don't think he's going

00:27:19.920 to federalize the city but he might it would be a heck of a thing if he pulled that off

00:27:26.880 if trump managed to uh do in washington dc what he did on the border which is use uh you know

00:27:35.520 unconventional means and really put some attention on it and put the right people in charge

00:27:43.200 and suddenly dc crime falls by 75 um that's going to be very impressive and it will be hard not to

00:27:52.960 notice especially if you work in washington dc so i think trump found another one of those 80 20 things

00:28:00.800 and if he pulls it off it's very likely he can um if he pulls it off it's going to be another home run

00:28:11.520 and it will just be one more thing you can say well look what i did i did it in 30 days and democrats

00:28:17.760 couldn't get it done at all so i think that's where that's added all right one of my favorite things

00:28:24.240 and this is a slow news summer kind of a story is uh let's do a little romp through uh the social media 0.58

00:28:34.560 and the news about prominent democrats who are the ridiculous ones let's start with jasmine crockett 0.99

00:28:43.280 every one of these has a fresh story about them today have you noticed that republicans use 0.85

00:28:50.480 democrat personalities uh for humor stories and you don't even have to add anything to it

00:28:58.000 just the story itself is humorous just by itself so uh jasmine crockett you all know who she is

00:29:06.960 her staff says she's never in the office and she's focused almost exclusively on being an influencer

00:29:12.800 and i was even wondering how many democrats even know who she is i feel like the republicans are the

00:29:20.960 ones that are making her famous right because if republicans completely ignored jasmine crockett 0.99

00:29:29.920 would the democrats pay attention i don't know i feel it's because she gets a big response

00:29:36.720 from republicans that she has any attention at all and what's funny about it is it's like a game of

00:29:45.760 chicken so the uh the game of chicken goes like this i'm gonna say outrageously bad things about 0.95

00:29:53.680 republicans and the republicans say the more outrageously ridiculous things you say about us 1.00

00:30:00.720 the more stupid you look and the better we look go ahead oh yeah well i'm gonna call you all nazis 1.00

00:30:09.680 okay go ahead and do that and we're gonna run a story about you every single day because we think 1.00

00:30:15.280 you're ridiculous and funny and so both it's just this game of chicken we don't know who's winning so far 1.00

00:30:26.400 and then rosie o'donnell has a new quote about trump uh well he is a cruel criminal and mentally 1.00

00:30:33.200 unstable man i think he's the worst thing to ever happen to the united states and his cruelty knows no 0.96

00:30:39.360 bounds he's the worst thing to ever happen to the united states i'm pretty sure that uh we've had some 0.96

00:30:48.960 bad things like the depression we had a few bad things world war ii but rosie o'donnell is 0.99

00:30:58.480 crazy as ever i think the funniest part is you could argue that trump would never have been president

00:31:06.640 without rosie o'donnell because she was the magic answer he gave at the first debate and it was the

00:31:14.320 thing that really made people go wait a minute what did you just do and he you know he said only rosie

00:31:20.560 o'donnell and it was just it just opened up his path all the way to the white house and i feel like she

00:31:29.520 maybe she knows you know on some level she knows she's somewhat responsible for being president 0.87

00:31:37.600 which to me is hilarious then benno o'rourke uh we're doing the tour of ridiculous democrats

00:31:47.120 um he was uh doing some event where he's speaking and telling democrat states to redraw their uh

00:31:54.800 districts and to do it now and i'm thinking to myself well they will but i think there's only what

00:32:01.840 two left uh before i said that they had all gerrymandered but i think there are two maybe

00:32:08.800 california is one of them that are not a hundred percent gerrymandered but they will be and then if

00:32:14.960 the republicans also went to 100 they would still gain gain seats but beto got the memo that what

00:32:23.680 democrats should do to act like men is use the f word a lot so he says f the rules except he uses the 0.53

00:32:32.720 real world word uh we're gonna win whatever it takes so do you see the pattern they talk about

00:32:42.080 winning they don't talk about helping the country or making america great again or giving you more

00:32:49.840 money in your paycheck they talk about winning which really makes it look like it's about them

00:32:57.920 because they're the ones in a contest you and i are not in a contest you know we're just citizens

00:33:03.680 trying to survive they're in the contest so when they talk forever about winning it just is them

00:33:10.560 talking about themselves right we want to win we want to win so we'll get re-elected anyway and then they

00:33:18.480 got the memo that they have to curse so cursing and talking about winning those are the two most

00:33:26.000 loserish things they could do and they do it every time ontario the wait is over the gold standard of

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00:34:37.360 us to know so he showed a picture on social media of the standing room only in wheeling west virginia um

00:34:45.760 it's called wheeling because most of the people are in what wheelchairs now that's not true uh but they were

00:34:52.240 not young and uh bernie says a red state blue state the american people don't want oligarchy they don't want

00:35:02.080 authoritarianism man that man has a way with words they don't want oligarchy and they don't want

00:35:09.200 authoritarianism that just makes me want to march in the streets and hold a sign and say down with

00:35:17.440 oligarchy down with authoritarianism it just like comes off your tongue so easily but what i'd like to see

00:35:27.360 is uh the uh oligarchy and the uh oligarchy and the authoritarianism combined into one word which i

00:35:34.720 would recommend would be authoragarchy so i want to i want to have a protest meeting with signs that say

00:35:44.320 down with the authoragarchy so that would be the authoritarian with the oligarchy

00:35:50.160 authoragarchy yeah you can use that all right and now democrats are warning uh mega apparently that uh

00:36:02.880 gavin newsom will become our next president and he will get revenge on all the things that president

00:36:10.960 got revenge on them for so he will be their the revenging angel to which i say

00:36:18.480 what more bad things could democrats do i mean it's almost like it's an existential threat when they

00:36:29.120 have any power at all so can is there really any anything left that they can threaten we know that

00:36:37.440 the world would end if gavin newsom became president that's not true the world would not end but we

00:36:43.840 certainly wouldn't be paying down the debt and the borders probably would be a little bit more open

00:36:50.880 so we could predict that part well howard stern we're hearing i don't know how anybody would know

00:36:58.240 this but the report is that at one point howard stern had 20 million daily listeners but he's now being

00:37:07.520 canceled by his uh by sirius and they say he was down to 125 000 from 20 million now that's not all trump

00:37:17.440 people but it does make sense to me because i felt like he couldn't do what he was doing the further he

00:37:26.000 got into senior citizenship is that's a wig right howard stern that's not real hair right howard stern like

00:37:35.840 maybe it was when he was young but it couldn't possibly be real hair right is he bald so

00:37:45.440 he looks he doesn't really make sense you you can't be 100 years old and doing what he does

00:37:52.560 so part of it is it's just gross the older he gets it just gets more gross

00:37:58.400 um but also his entire reason for being is that he was so edgy but in the world of the internet how

00:38:09.840 edgy is he he's not really very edgy in the world of podcasts right so he's not edgy and that's sort of

00:38:18.480 all he had and then he was also sexual so even though you were only listening to it on the radio you'd hear

00:38:25.840 him interacting with you know sex workers and porn stars and stuff like that and if you're young and

00:38:33.200 male it was better than not listening to that stuff but in the world of you know only fans and i think

00:38:42.480 they're like 80 million only fan subscribers in the united states something like that um

00:38:49.280 um he's just not very edgy and he's not very sexy so i'm surprised he had any listeners actually

00:38:59.440 um

00:39:02.400 um yeah that's a boring story so you may be seeing online a lot of uh back and forth about weed

00:39:11.360 legalization at the federal level because trump has reportedly i don't know if it's true but reportedly

00:39:19.280 considered maybe um declassifying it from being such a dangerous drug

00:39:27.920 hello my visitor

00:39:34.880 that loud noise downstairs was his brother knocking something over

00:39:42.080 all right gary the cat will be joining us for

00:39:44.640 coffee with scott adams anyway weed legalization i was talking about um so you've probably seen matt

00:39:52.240 walsh and maybe uh mike sort of etch um advocating you know less less legality of weed i guess and

00:40:05.440 here's the only thing i would add

00:40:06.960 um it occurred to me that the weed conversation the weed legalization conversation is a lot like uh

00:40:16.960 guns now like with all analogies it doesn't mean it's exact it just reminds me of it and what it

00:40:24.720 reminds me of specifically is that when we argue about guns we're we're never really honest about

00:40:31.680 it guns are unambiguously good for some people and unambiguously create more danger for other people

00:40:41.600 so if you're somebody who might be benefiting from it you might like it and vice versa so weed's the same

00:40:48.880 thing i definitely think that there are lots of people ruin their lives with weed

00:40:55.280 and if you're sort of a lazy unmotivated person and you get into weed it might be the worst combination

00:41:03.120 ever however there are other people who uh maybe stay behind the uh under the radar who are very successful

00:41:15.040 entrepreneurs and investors and ceos who uh don't mind revealing themselves to me

00:41:22.720 because you know they know that i'm a participant myself so my sense of can successful people be

00:41:32.800 uh imbibers of weed is that oh yeah the most successful people

00:41:39.280 very commonly um are frequent weed users but like guns you cannot say that weed is either good or bad

00:41:51.040 there's some people and i believe i'm one of them for for whom is that the right word uh weed has

00:42:00.400 completely benefited my life like just massively in ways i've described before health wise and

00:42:07.680 creativity wise and uh you know mental health wise but i'm not usual i'm not typical so i'm completely aware

00:42:17.760 aware that there may be 10 times as many people who are ruining their lives because they shouldn't

00:42:24.720 have been involved with it at all so like guns the question comes down to freedom

00:42:31.760 you know should you have the freedom that some people can have it knowing that uh it will make the access to

00:42:40.720 it easier for other people who definitely should have stayed away from it but they didn't know any better

00:42:46.160 so does that analogy make sense that it's sort of like guns it's not good or bad

00:42:56.320 some people is definitely good for some people it's definitely bad for

00:43:00.160 and it might even be that the people it's bad for is more than the people it's good for but

00:43:09.040 does that mean that the people who find it's useful should not have access and maybe the answer is yes

00:43:17.760 but uh that's the way i would frame it the way i think of it it's not a yes no all right

00:43:25.040 all right apparently there are uh ai induced psychotic breaks being reported psychotic breaks

00:43:34.960 meaning a bunch of people on reddit

00:43:39.920 people on reddit are talking about how people are being sort of hypnotized by ai and it uses words like

00:43:48.800 um so they're they're suggesting that gary

00:43:58.320 they're suggesting that these word choices have something to do with sending people into some kind of a

00:44:04.960 weird psychedelic like mental breakdown some of the words are recursion spiral codex mirror break

00:44:14.720 reflective echoes and sigils

00:44:20.640 now are those hypnosis words

00:44:25.280 um a little bit yeah i would say yeah a little bit they're kind of hypnosis words if you put them

00:44:32.960 together like that they would have an effect on you so the question is has ai figured out how to

00:44:44.160 use language to persuade which in my view has not learned that you know i haven't seen it but maybe

00:44:51.600 there's some new version of ai that can do it is hypnotizing these uh reddit users but my guess would be

00:44:59.360 it's just complete bs

00:45:03.280 i don't believe that people are having psychotic breakdowns

00:45:06.880 because they're talking to ai i just don't think it's happening

00:45:12.800 so we're gonna call bs on that all right gary

00:45:18.880 um

00:45:20.400 so one in five britons britons british people

00:45:25.600 say they are willing to engage in political violence to stop national decline

00:45:31.440 breitbart is reporting on that one in five britons are willing to engage in political violence

00:45:38.000 to stop national decline to which i say i'm pretty sure your national decline started in 1918

00:45:46.160 that was that was considered the beginning of the end of the british empire

00:45:54.800 so maybe a little bit uh too little too late on that one out of five

00:46:04.320 and uh let's see

00:46:07.040 uh that story's too boring

00:46:08.960 uh well there's a allegedly now a ukraine peace plan from pudin there may or may not be there's one

00:46:19.280 from the european union and allegedly zelensky likes it but we don't know the details i don't really

00:46:27.520 believe that there's going to be a peace agreement do you how many of you think that ukraine is going to

00:46:36.480 become a successful peace agreement because of the upcoming meetings it just doesn't feel like

00:46:46.480 it doesn't feel like they have the right mentality uh or situation that this could turn into anything good i don't know

00:46:57.680 we'll see we'll see meanwhile 2 000 iranian clerics uh endorsed the assassination of trump

00:47:07.280 including some you know famed ones i guess pj media is reporting this

00:47:14.160 now does that sound like a lot

00:47:16.560 2 000 iranian clerics endorsed assassinating trump

00:47:21.040 you know what my immediate thought was how many democrats would have answered the same

00:47:28.880 i'll bet it's a lot more than 2 000

00:47:31.680 if you were to do a anonymous poll of every democrat voter do you think it would be more than 2 000 or

00:47:41.760 fewer than 2 000 in america who would say yeah i'd want trump to be assassinated

00:47:47.200 i'll bet you there are more americans who want trump assassinated than there are iranian clerics

00:47:57.440 and i actually mean that like literally probably way more probably there's something like a hundred

00:48:03.440 thousand democrats who would just casually say oh yeah he should be totally assassinated so that's what i think

00:48:15.680 well that brings me to the end of my prepared marks and it would be

00:48:20.400 time for you to find uh owen gregorian's spaces that will be following this usually they're on saturday but

00:48:28.160 today today today it's on sunday um i'm going to say a few words privately to the

00:48:34.880 beloved locals subscribers and the rest of you thanks for joining hope you have a nice and lazy

00:48:42.800 sunday and you get some exercise and some sun and some fun no rain all right

00:48:51.920 locals i'll be with you in 30 seconds privately

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 10, 2025

Episode 2923 CWSA 08⧸10⧸25

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